The former British Petroleum collection includes around 78,000 palynological slides from 3,800 wells and outcrops worldwide. A Google Earth layer locating all well locations for the collection is available.

Stanley Duxbury's collection of dinoflagellate cysts, collected from rocks formed during the Cretaceous period in the Isle of Wight. The original slides have been reimaged using state of the art imaging faciltiles, including Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM).

Previously part of the botany department collections, the modern pollen and spore collection includes approximately 12,000 glass slides, each with labelled examples of pollen and/or spores from key extant (living) northwest European flora.